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A day in the life of a gar lab

Posted by , on 21 June 2016

My name is Martin Minařík and I am a PhD student in Robert Cerny’s lab at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Our lab focuses mostly on the development of ...

Madrid Adventure to Study Autophagy in Melanoma Stem Cells

Posted by , on 20 May 2016

I am hugely grateful to the Journal of Cell Science and the Company of Biologists for awarding me a traveling fellowship to visit the laboratory of Dr Guillermo Velasco at ...

Mole's Wow! So now you have your own lab! Part IX – The big fight

Posted by , on 20 April 2016

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.     Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ ...

A Day in the Life of a Bat Lab

Posted by , on 15 March 2016

I am Aaron Harnsberger, a second year Master’s degree student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.  The focus of this lab is on ...

Raw Data: a cautionary tale

Posted by , on 4 March 2016

I’ve just finished reading ‘Raw Data’ by Pernille Rørth. As a disclaimer, Pernille ran the lab next door to me when I was a postdoc, and as Editor in Chief ...

A day in the life of a Spider Lab

Posted by , on 17 February 2016

We (Anna Schönauer, Daniel Leite and Christian Bonatto) are PhD students in Alistair McGregor’s group (http://mcgregor-evo-devo-lab.net) at Oxford Brookes University, and it is a pleasure to briefly present our research ...

How far is India from Europe?

Posted by , on 12 February 2016

The launch of a new partnership between EMBO and India made me think about what international connections mean to European research. One of the pleasures of being a research scientist ...

Zürich to Dresden and back: of small fish and big data

Posted by , on 9 February 2016

In Spring 2015, just a couple of months into my PhD, I started to settle with my new surroundings in Zürich, making friends in my PhD lab of Dr. Christian ...

A day in the life of an embryonic stem cell lab!

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

Hi everyone! I’m Helena. Some of you may know me as the current intern here at the Node, but next week, I will go back to Alfonso Martínez Arias’ lab ...

21st Century Journal Clubs

Posted by , on 2 February 2016

Does anyone have 21st century ideas on how to run a diverse (not just developmental biology) departmental journal club?

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